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Dr. David Chinitz's tenure as English Department Chair comes to an end (6/3/2024)
After six years, Professor David Chinitz will be stepping down from his position as Chair of the English Department.
Dr. Chinitz sought the position of chair as a way of 鈥減aying forward鈥� the generosity of his predecessors.
鈥淪everal senior colleagues had served as chair during my time here so that I could accomplish what I wanted鈥攑ublish my books and articles, teach the courses I wanted to develop, and do the service that appealed to me. The chairs gave up their time so that I could have my career. Eventually it felt like my turn to serve so that others could have their careers. Because that's fundamentally what the chair does: the chair makes it possible for all their colleagues to do the best work they can do. After six years I understand much better what the Jesuits mean when they talk about being a person for others, because as chair, you really have to put yourself aside and serve,鈥� he says.
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Dr. Suzanne Bost's first year as Graduate Programs Director (4/9/2024)
Dr. Suzanne Bost has been Graduate Programs Director in the English Department for almost a full academic year and says she is really happy to be holding the position.
She has been at Loyola for 15 years and previously served as Graduate Programs Director in the Women鈥檚 Studies and Gender Studies Program, where she is an affiliate professor.
As a tenured faculty member, Dr. Bost has the responsibility of taking on administrative roles and says that 鈥渨orking with grad students is the most interesting and pleasurable way for [her] to serve the department.鈥� Her favorite aspect of the GPD position in English so far is that she gets to learn about what all the graduate students are interested in and what they are working on.
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The Letters of Emily Dickinson Edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell on April 17, 2023
Dr. Cristanne Miller, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor of English, University at Buffalo will discuss and read from her new edition of Emily Dickinson's letters (co-edited with Domhnall Mitchell), the most complete edition of the celebrated poet's letters ever assembled. Sponsored by the English Department, Writing Program, Svaglic Chair, and Bookends and Beginnings.
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Dissertating students engage with ecocritical literature (3/14/2024)
Working on a dissertation takes years of research and writing to create a project that not only conveys a PhD student鈥檚 expertise but treats a topic that a candidate finds rich, interesting, and important.
Three of the current English PhD candidates are working on dissertations that touch on ecocriticism, and although their research spans different periods, they have one thing in common: they explore how literature talks about our planet.
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From graduate student to lecturer: Dr. Ryan Peters (1/29/2024)
Dr. Ryan Peters鈥� journey at Loyola started in the spring of 2008, when became a PhD student in the English Department. And now, fifteen years later, he's a Lecturer in the Writing Program teaching students how to write and think critically about literature.
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Dr. Michael Slager teaches students how to write from day one (12/5/2023)
Dr. Michael Slager began teaching at Loyola in 2014. His first role was as a second language instructor with the English Language Learners Program (ELLP). Since 2016, he has been teaching English 100: Developmental Writing and tutoring international students at Loyola鈥檚 Writing Center.
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Dr. Nur Karatas and the healing nature of literature (11/2/2023)
Doctor Nur Karatas is starting her first year as a full-time lecturer at Loyola after teaching as a part-time instructor for the last two years. During her time in the Loyola classroom, she has taught students about the healing nature of literature.
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Loyola creative writing alumni talk about their published books (10/2/2023)
Read how alumni Eliza Marley, Kehinde Winful, and Elia Newsom got their work published.
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Alumna Dr. Tripthi Pillai brings pedagogy to the forefront of the classroom (9/1/2023)
Tripthi Pillai obtained her doctorate degree in English from Loyola in 2010 and dove headfirst into a professorship role. Recently promoted from Associate Professor to Professor at Coastal Carolina University and a year into an appointment as Assistant Dean of its College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Dr. Pillai has transformed Coastal鈥檚 English department鈥檚 pedagogical landscape and developed new courses and teaching practices for the curriculum.
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Annette LePique Wins Rabkin Foundation Award (8/1/2023)
Annette LePique received the 2023 Rabkin Award for art journalism.
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Dr. Aqdas Aftab introduces students to decolonization and queer theory (3/16/2023)
Dr. Aqdas Aftab started teaching at Loyola in 2021 after getting their PhD from University of Maryland. Since then, they have brought a new literary perspective focused on anti-racism, decolonization, and queer and transgender theory to our evolving English Department.
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Loyola alumna Dr. Wallace featured on John Hopkins University Press (1/18/2023)
Dr. Cynthia Wallace, Loyola alumna from 2012, was recently featured on the John Hopkins University Press blog to talk about her role as editor of the special Autumn 2022 Adrienne Rich issue of the journal Arizona Quarterly.
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Doctor Jaime Hovey teaches literature through pop culture (1/6/2023)
Dr. Hovey focuses on teaching popular culture and writing to help students recognize that they are surrounded by debates and issues present in everyday media.
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Loyola's new professor of Indigenous Studies, Dr. Madeleine Reddon (12/5/2022)
Coming all the way from Vancouver, Dr. Madeleine Reddon is the English Department鈥檚 new professor of Indigenous literature. She took the post at Loyola because she feels like the university is well poised in the intellectual hub that is the city of Chicago and is a great place to be dialoguing with other universities around the city.
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Meet Loyola's new writing professor, Nami Mun (11/9/2022)
Newly appointed assistant professor Nami Mun joins our creative writing faculty from Northwestern University. What inspired her to make the move from Evanston to Rogers Park was the passion she saw in Loyola鈥檚 students during her campus interview, as well as the evident collegiality of the English Department faculty.
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Get to know Dr. Katarzyna Lecky (10/5/2022)
Dr. Katarzyna Lecky is Loyola鈥檚 English Department's new Surtz Associate Professor and is bringing years of experience and expertise in Renaissance literature to campus.
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Digitizing a Diva's Work: The Amy Lowell Letters Project (8/30/2022)
Dr. Melissa Bradshaw receives the Research Support Grant from the Office of Research Services to continue working on the 鈥淭he Amy Lowell Letters Project.鈥�
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The 2021-2022 Edward Surtz Lecture in the Humanities: "Texts and the City: Literature and the Longue Dur茅e"
This lecture will take place March 21, 2022, at 3:30 p.m., conducted via Zoom. Preregistration is required.
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POSTPONED: Visiting Scholar Professor Pilar Martinez-Benedi presents: 鈥淪apore di Mare鈥� Pavese鈥檚 鈥淔luid鈥� Translation of Moby-Dick
This talk has been postponed from December 2 to a date in January 2022 to be announced. Please check back here for further details.
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Professor Emeritus Joyce Wexler publishes two new books on Joseph Conrad
Her monograph and edited collection are both available now from Palgrave Macmillan.
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Announcing the winner of the 2021 Stanley Clayes Memorial Essay Competition
Join us for a presentation of the winning essay and reception on Wednesday, November 10.
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Our own Wren Romero competes on Jeopardy!
Her episode airs Friday, October 29th at 3:30 p.m. on ABC.
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A recording of the 2021 Svaglic Chair Fall Lecture, delivered by Daniel Balderston and Celeste Martin, is now available on Panopto with LUC credentials.
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Announcing the Svaglic Chair Fall 2021 Lecture
"Typographic Transcriptions: Representing Jorge Luis Borges鈥檚 Manuscripts" will be presented by Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh) and Mar铆a Celeste Mart铆n (Emily Carr University of Art + Design).
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Lowell Wyse, PhD 2018, published by University of Iowa Press
"Ecospatiality: A Place-Based Approach to American Literature," praised as "a tour de force of literary cartography," is based on his dissertation written at Loyola.
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Graduate candidates and faculty hold 鈥淢eeting Grounds,鈥� a critical workshop and symposium
The two-day event fostered dialogue among an international audience during a critical workshop on Friday, April 23, as well as a symposium on Saturday, April 24.
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Meeting Grounds: Mutual Ethics and Action in Animal Studies, Ecocriticism, and Posthumanism
Join us Saturday, April 24th for this virtual symposium, sponsored by the Svaglic Chair of Textual Studies and the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities.
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Dr. Werner was invited by the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College to discuss her latest book, Writing In Time: Emily Dickinson's Master Hours (2021).
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Lydia Craig has been awarded Best Paper in the Humanities at the 14th Annual GSAC Graduate Student Research Symposium for 鈥淟ibrary Lane: Digitally Discovering A Lost American Impressionist Painting.鈥� The paper and presentation document her investigation into the origins of a painting found on the curb using textual studies methods and digital resources.
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On Wednesday, March 24, the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) will host their annual Research Symposium. Please join the department virtually at 3:45 pm to support Abby Palmisano and Joe Hansen as they present their research and field questions from the audience.
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MSA 2021 in Chicago, to be held November 4鈥�7, aims to commemorate the Great Migration, which brought hundreds of thousands of African Americans to the city to escape racist violence in the Jim Crow South. Participants are invited to understand migration as a capacious term, enabling new conversations about the Great Migration, migration from abroad, the current global migration crisis, and the impact of these demographic movements on modernist innovation in literature, drama, music, art, architecture, and design in the twentieth- and twentieth-first centuries.
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This talk explores in what ways we can advance the conversation about race in the early modern period at this moment both in the United States and the world at large. It will argue that the range of ideologies and practices about racial difference in the early modern world alert us against oversimplifying our understanding of racial ideologies and their complicated global histories.
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Dr. Le-Khac was interviewed in The Economist about his recent research on pervasive shifts from abstract to concrete language in 19th-century British novels. The piece contextualizes this research, an analysis of thousands of novels from this time period, as part of the rapid growth and significance of digital humanities as a field.
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All members of the English Department community are invited to share their experience of the present moment in this new blog series.
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A presentation of the winning essay and reception will be held on Wednesday, November 11 at 4 p.m.
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How did the Black Death impact people鈥檚 daily lives? From 1340-1380, Pepo Albizi kept a ledger and memorial book, recording business affairs, accounts of events, personal and family matters, including details of his three weddings, a list of his legitimate and illegitimate children, and a register of family members who died in the black death of 1348. The diary provides an unprecedented glimpse into the life of a medieval merchant during the time of a pandemic and tells us a story of survival and of overcoming a tragic personal and public event. This talk, by Isabella Magni, will present the initial stages of building a digital edition of the Albizi Memorial book. Click to register and receive the Zoom event link. Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 2pm - 3pm CST.
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Lydia Craig's interest in Facebook memes made from spurious Dickens quotes inspired her article, "What Charles Dickens Never Said: Verifying Internet 'Quotes' and Accessing the Works with Online Resources," published in the latest Dickens Quarterly.READ MORE
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Dr. Seth Perlow will be speaking on computerized methods for literary handwriting analysis Wednesday, September 23rd, in a talk co-sponsored by the Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies and the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, to be delivered via Zoom.
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Drs. Casey Jergenson, Mary Lutze, Erica Chu, and Justin Hastings (not pictured) have accepted positions at universities across the country.MORE
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A rising sophomore in the English Department, Krcic has been recognized for her short film, "Unnoticeable: A Letter To My Younger Self."
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Information for the entire Loyola community is continually being updated. Thank you for your patience during this difficult time.LEARN MORE
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This event has been rescheduled for Fall 2020.
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Dr. Stein has served as an advocate for the humanities for over 20 years.
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Professor Robert Alter will be lecturing on his translation of the Hebrew bible on February 26th.
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Join us Thursday, February 13th, for a talk by Dr. Genevieve Love with accompanying performances.DETAILS
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Students, faculty, and members of the public are invited to a screening of "The Danish Girl" on February 6th and a Launch Symposium on February 7th.DETAILS
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The "Late Show with Stephen Colbert" executive producer spoke with Loyola Magazine on how his English education informs his comedy (and vice versa!).READ MORE
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Join us Thursday, November 21st at 4:30 PM on the Information Commons 4th floor.
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A reception will be held this Wednesday, November 6, at 3:30 p.m. in McCormick Lounge, Coffey Hall.
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Dr. Dow has been repeatedly recognized for his work at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Illinois.READ MORE
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Congratulations to Dr. Beasley on the recent publication of several articles! READ
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Welcome to Anna Rubenstein, our new administrative assistant!
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Grace Pregent, PhD Candidate, has accepted the position of Associate Director of Michigan State University's Writing Center in East Lansing, Michigan, starting Fall 2019. Congratulations!
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Read more about Dr. Marta L. Werner, Dr. Long Le-Khac, and Dr. Jayme StayerREAD MORE
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Mark Owen, PhD 2016, has accepted a full-time position as Instructor of English at Macomb Community College in Warren, (southeast) Michigan. Congratulations to Dr. Owen!
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Naomi Gades, PhD 2019, has accepted a position as lecturer in English composition at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, starting Fall 2019. Congratulations to Dr. Gades!
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Anna Ullmann, PhD 2018, has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of English at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, beginning in Fall 2019. Congratulations, Anna! VIEW
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Senior English major Sophie Kruger has published a creative nonfiction essay in "Bright Wall/Dark Room," a national online literary magazine. The essay, which considers a personal relationship through analysis of the 1973 movie "The Way We Were," is an example of the hybrid form students learn in ENG 392, Advanced Creative Nonfiction.
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Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Caughie on the publication of her co-authored article. Click the link to read it!
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Naomi, an English PhD student at Loyola, won the prize at the T.S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting in Atlanta.
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Jake Hinkson will be heading to France this fall for a book tour, and to attend literary festivals.
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The 43rd annual Edward Surtz Lecture in the Humanities will be delivered by Robin Fleming (Boston College), who will speak on migration, cultural identity, and the lives of women and non-elites in a formative period of British history.
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Congratulations to Prof. Pamela Caughie, Emily Datskou, and Rebecca Parker for the publication of 鈥淪torm Clouds on the Horizon: Feminist Ontologies and the Problem of Gender.鈥�
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Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Kucsera, Dr. Anna Ullmann, Dr. Brandiann Molby, and Dr. Brett Beasley (not pictured).
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The English Department invites you to join us on March 23, 9:00am - 5:30pm on the Information Commons 4th Floor.
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鈥淭ranslating the Odyssey: How and Why鈥�
Emily Wilson, Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Piper Hall. Tuesday, April 10th 2018, 4pm - 5:30pm. Reception to follow.
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Join Peter Robinson from the University of Saskatchewan as he introduces the new Textual Communities system for collaborative editing on Monday, February 19 at 6 pm.
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Wednesday, February 14 on the Information Commons 4th Floor at 3:30pm. Click the link for more details!
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Nadine Kenney-Johnstone's book, Of This Much I'm Sure, was published last April and won in the category of Indie Nonfiction.
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Mary Lutze (pictured) won 1st place for her essay "Advancing Accessibility: The 'Radical Deaf Theatre' of Aaron Sawyer's The Vineyard."
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Edited by Loyola Professor David Chinitz, The War Years: 1940鈥�1946 reveals Eliot鈥檚 response to the extraordinary pressures of total war. Click the link to view the precis.
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Aaron Baker, Assistant Professor of English, is the winner of the 2017 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize.
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Ian Cornelius, Edward Surtz, S.J., Associate Professor of Medieval Literature and Culture, has published a new book, Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter. Click the story for more details.
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"Employment and starting salaries rise sharply for humanities grads." For the full text of the article by Nikki Waller, click the link!
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Join us for this conference on September 28th and 29th on the Information Commons 4th Floor. Click the link for detailed information!
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Congratulations to Dr. Badia Ahad, who was named a Master Teacher by the 2017 Sujack Awards committee.
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Howard Axelrod, a member of our creative writing faculty, recently published this piece in the New York Times.
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Dissertating students engage with ecocritical literature (3/14/2024)
Working on a dissertation takes years of research and writing to create a project that not only conveys a PhD student鈥檚 expertise but treats a topic that a candidate finds rich, interesting, and important.
Three of the current English PhD candidates are working on dissertations that touch on ecocriticism, and although their research spans different periods, they have one thing in common: they explore how literature talks about our planet.
